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Accelerated Vocabulary Instruction:Strategies for Closing the Achievement Gap for All Students
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Blog Updates
Helping Writers Justify
When students are writing explanations, or explanatory essays, they often need to justify their thoughts and ideas. Here is a page where I explain a couple of ideas and give a resource from my book, The Big Book of Literacy Tasks. Ideas for Justifying Happy Teaching,...
Using Our Work in Different Ways
Last week I tweeted that one of my doctoral students was giving a presentation in class using some of the material from my new book, The Big Book of Literacy Tasks. I thought I would share the lesson she was using to teach her colleagues in the doctoral course. Sara...
Three Ways to Engage Writers in Narrative
You can engage writers in different ways with narrative. Some of us prefer to give students prompts to get them writing, others like to have students write fairy tales or novelettes (depending on their age, of course). I prefer to have students work on personal...
